Do you have any beliefs or habits that have helped you achieve success?

Get obsessed, and be persistent read everything, listen to podcasts, audiobooks, go to meetups, network on BP, post on BP often, talk to everyone you run into about real estate.if you live and breath real estate, you will be successful: guaranteed.

Wishing you the best of success buddy!

However, the posts I read that are the most encouraging are the ones where someone has success with a property and it motivates others. 

How determined are you to bridge the gap between your actual abilities and success -- because there is most likely a bridge that exists between what you think is going to happen and reality. 

I’m not usually the one to post on here about our success, I usually leave that to my business partner @Michael Beeman.

I certainly don't mind showing homes to folks who are not from the area and giving them a good idea of "where" they will have better success in the rental game.  

A 2% property carries much more risk than a 1% property.Baltimore, which is a high risk market you can easily achieve 2%, and sometimes 3 or 4%

Even with the historical average of 10% per year, it's nowhere near the roughly 24% gain I would achieve with putting that $18,000 towards a rental property.

I have been reading so much information on how to become a landlord for my properties and how to run them as a successful business.